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(No Model.)

A. F. WHITE.

CHAIR.

No. 331,352. v Patented Dec. 1, 1885.

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ASA FRANK WHITE, OF CANDOB, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE HALF TO CHARLES 0. WHITE AND EDXVARD M. VJHITE.

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E PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 331,852, dated December 1, 1885.

Application filed September 17, 1984. Serial No. 143,280. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern: made to assume this shape after being thus Be it known that I, Asa FRANK WHITE, a cut by the saw the blanks of Fig. 4 are citizen of the United States, residing in the steamed and bent on a form, the art of thus 55 town ofOandor, Tioga county, New York,have bending wood being one well known and in 5 invented an Improved Chair for Household common use, though the form on which the and other uses, of which the following is a blank is bent is a special one made to suit my specification. purpose. The same is also true of the steam My invention relates to an integral construcing and bending of the blank of Fig. 3. In it 60 tion of the main parts thatcompose my chair, the ends a become when bent the front legs,

1 said parts being cutfrom asingle piece of wood, the middle 0 the arch, and the end I) the rear and to the joining of the said parts together leg end of the rear post, and the part d the into a chair, as will be apparent as I describe post and back of the chair.

any chair. Two or three ways of utilizing the end d, 6 Figure 1 is a side elevation of my chair; Fig. Fig. 3, are possible: first, to carry up the rear 2, a front elevation. Fig. 8 is a view of the posts straight without a back curving to the piece or block that the posts and legs of the height of the back, where they end, then chair are made out of, with a line on its side connect their tops by a crossbar, which is a-- that shows the saw cleft or cut made partially usual form of joining the posts; second, the 70 the length of the piece before it is bent into two posts of each side or end of the chair may shape. Fig. 4 is a View of the piece, block, be bent by any suitable curve, similar in its or blankwith lines that show the saw clefts or main form to that seen in Fig. 2, and the place cuts when the blank is designed to furnish the of meeting in the middle of the back be joined front legs, the back posts, and the back, all together; third, the two ends d of the blank made out of one and the same piece of wood, of Fig. 3 may be made so long that they shall which is still after the chair is made in one meet in the middle at or near d, Fig. 2, and piece of wood. there be joined by any convenient fixture,and

In the figures, a is the front leg of one side, then be continued down to and be made fast and a the front leg of the other side, of the in the seatj at its rear part. chair; and b is one of the corresponding rear By a little reflection it will be'evident that posts of the chair. In the blank seen in Fig, quite a number of forms of the back of a chair 3 there is a line, 0', which represents a sawcan be made by the various shapes this excut, made preferably bya band-saw, cut from tended end (1 can be made to assume, and its left-hand end toward the right hand, but hence they need not be represented. 8 5 not quite through the whole length of the The seat 3' is made of solid wood or open 5 blank, leaving the end 6', which in the chair cane-work or of perforated wood by any con:

becomes the lower end of the rear post, the venient usual form. It is, as shown in the figparts a become the front legs, and the part (1 ures, made fast by bolts, rivets, or wood pins the back,of the chair, as seen in Fig. 1. Two to the tops of the arches at gg, three places, 0 saw-cuts are seen in the block or blank of Fig. and to the rear posts at 9. At the back there .0 4. In that case a small piece, 0, is left in the may or may not be an arched piece similar to middle, because the blank is longer than is c, Fig. 2. At the place where the saw-clefts necessary,to allow the front legs,the rear posts, end and the arches begin bolts, rivets, or pins and back to be cutout ofthe one piece. Itis not better be used, so that the ends of the legs do required for use in the chair, but is in the dinot split. The usual cross-rods, f, connect the vision between the ends a, and furnishes a legs of the chair to each other; and posts,rods, convenient entrancespace for the band-saw or spindles are, when desirable, usedv in the by the curved lines shown, which lines are back of the chair, as seen at i, Fig. 2. The continued toward, but not entirely through, ends of the blanks are preferably cut lighter rco each end of the blank, as shown, and, as before than the saw-cuts would leave them, as shown said, the left-hand end parts become a b c, by the secondary cuts 6, Fig. 3. The dotted (seen in Figs. 1 and 2,) and the curved top of line at d shows that there is in that blank suthe back (1, Fig. 2, when in the chair. To be perfluous wood to be cutaway. A. sand-band or other means cuts, rounds, and shapes and front legs integral and cut from a single piece polishes the blanks after being bent. of wood, the rear and front legs being con- By these means and forms I construct a Very nected and supported by a curved piece, which strong, useful chair, novel in its principles,as also forms a side support for the seat.

5 I believe. 4. In a chair, the combination of the back Bending parts of chairs is an old art; hence and rear and front legs formed integrally and I do not claim that; but cut from a single blank, the seat, and fasten- W'hat I do claim ising devices a b g, as shown and described.

1. A chair having its back and rear and 5. A chair whose rear post and front leg and 10 front legs integral and cut from a single piece connecting side arch are integral and cut from of wood. a single piece of wood.

2. A chair having its back and rear and front legs integral and cut from a single piece ASA FRANK of wood and curved, as shown, to form side WVitnesses: 5 supports for its seat. S. J. PARKER,

3. A chair having its back and rear and OHS. G. DAY. 

